Sentences with phrase «power plants under»

«Coal power plants under construction and proposed in India alone would account for roughly half of the remaining carbon budget.»
«Coal power plants under construction and proposed in India alone would account for roughly half of the remaining carbon budget,» said Steven Davis of the University of California, Irvine about his new study that will be published shortly.
The Supreme Court agreed on October 15 to review the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse gases from stationary sources like power plants under the Clean Air Act.
Some 126 power plants under development in 12 states are expected to nearly triple U.S. geothermal generating capacity.
The House's version basically says the EPA can't regulate a pollutant from power plants under 111 (d) if it already regulates other pollutants from those power plants.
Opponents say this wording makes the Clean Power Plan invalid, since the EPA has long regulated mercury emissions from power plants under Section 112.
While the Court did not overturn EPA's analysis and conclusion that public health benefits of the MATS rule vastly outweigh the costs to the coal and oil industry, it did find that EPA should have first considered whether it was appropriate to regulate power plants under the Clean Air Act's hazardous air pollution safeguards.
Most natural - gas fired plants — the majority of power plants under construction today — emit less than the new standard, around 800 pounds per megawatt.
Today's post will review the legal arguments, pro and con, on whether EPA may regulate existing power plants under both § 111 (d) and § 112.
In short, what's «hard to conceive» is that Congress meant to adopt a clerical amendment that would severely limit EPA's ability to consider alternatives to MACT regulation of HAP emissions — an option Congress expressly and exclusively provided for power plants under § 112 (n)(1)(A).
EPA has been regulating power plants under § 112 since December 2011, when it finalized the Mercury Air Toxics Standards (MATS) Rule.
Although, as explained above, the Senate amendment conflicts with EPA's discretion under § 112 (n)(1)(A) to regulate mercury emissions from power plants under § 111, the prohibition in the Senate amendment does not conflict with the prohibition in the House amendment.
And even if both amendments were valid, their prohibitions are complementary rather than conflicting, so EPA would still be barred from regulating existing power plants under § 111 (d).
The Clean Power Plan (CPP) was a far - reaching effort by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to control greenhouse gas emissions from coal - fired power plants under the Clean Air Act (CAA).
But as of September 2008 there are 10 large solar thermal power plants under construction or in development in the United States, ranging in size from 180 megawatts to 550 megawatts.
There are currently about 350 coal - fired power plants under construction in Southeast Asia, which Georg Kell, the founding director of the United Nations Global Compact, and now board chairman of Arabesque Partners, described as «collective suicide» at a green finance event in Singapore in February.
Defining CCS systems as a so - called Best Available Control Technology for new power plants under the Clean Air Act's New Source Review program
Under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act, the EPA outlined regulations for new and existing power plants, first with New Source Performance Standards on new power plants under Section 111 (b).
This devolution of climate policy has been further reinforced by the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) efforts to regulate carbon dioxide from existing power plants under the Clean Power Plan, which requires states to develop their own plans for compliance with emissions standards.
The coalition will also encourage the EPA to limit climate change - causing carbon emissions from fossil fuel power plants under the Clean Power Plan, push for federal controls on methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry, and work on controlling emissions from large - scale industry facilities, said the New York attorney general's office in a statement.
... «The EPA pointed to four coal - fired power plants under development — in Texas, Mississippi, California and Saskatchewan, Canada — to show that the rule is possible to meet.
Such co-production systems, when considered as power generators, can provide decarbonized electricity at lower costs than is feasible with new stand - alone fossil fuel power plants under a wide range of conditions, according to the study by Liu et al. published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), meanwhile, is considering how to treat wood - burning power plants under the Clean Power Plan, the Obama Administration's initiative to cut greenhouse gases coming from the electricity sector.
The power plants under these agreements are mainly thermal.
Former Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who has been outspoken in his opposition to a gas power plant under construction in Orange County, says the project should be scrapped altogether in the wake of the corruption charges brought by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, which showed the company behind it, Competitive Power Ventures, allegedly bribed a former top aide to the governor, Joe Percoco, seeking favorable treatment from the administration.
He and five others are accused of blocking access to a gas power plant under construction in Orange County.
Peter G. «Braith» Kelly, 53, a former energy company executive at Competitive Power Ventures, owner of a 650 - megawatt power plant under development in Orange County.
Former Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, during two visits to Orange County earlier this year concerning the CPV Valley Energy Center power plant under construction in Wawayanda, said he had suspected something was amiss in the permitting process.
Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) has secured fuel reloads up to 2034 for its Cooper nuclear power plant under a newly signed contract with Global Nuclear Fuels (GNF).
You get a great power plant under the hood, that gives other cars of this price a run for the money.
The manufacturer has equipped it with a 1.5 - litre diesel power plant under the hood, which is paired with a 5 - speed manual transmission gear box.
The 5.7 Liter V8 power plant under the hood provides all the muscle you need, cranking out 381hp and tied to a smooth shifting 5 Speed Automatic.
It is true that the Google - and NRG - backed three - tower, 370 - megawatt solar power plant under construction in Ivanpah, CA, near Las Vegas, will be the biggest such project in the world when it goes on - line in 2013.
One Rosenfeld is equal to 3 billion kilowatt - hours per year, which represents the electrical output of one 500 - megawatt coal - fired power plant under a set of standard assumptions.
The groups are challenging EPA's decision to approve a federal implementation plan for emissions of haze - forming pollutants from the Danskammer coal - fired power plant under the Clean Air Act's regional haze rule.
The company has also recently begun construction on the 392 MW Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in Southern California's Mojave Desert, the world's largest solar thermal power plant under construction.

Not exact matches

Under the reactor was a huge pool of water — coolant for the power plant.
Beijing, however, has reaffirmed its commitment to meeting its targets under the Paris accord, recently canceling construction of about 100 coal - fired power plants and investing billions in massive wind and solar projects.
The closure of Hydro - Quebec's Gentilly - 2 nuclear power plant temporarily lowers Quebec's fiscal capacity, as measured under the Equalization program, which in turn lowers Ontario's Equalization entitlement over a three - year period.
with carbon pricing and other measures, including eliminating coal - fired power plants, cutting methane emissions from the oil industry, and making cleaner fuels, Canada will still be 90 million tonnes shy of its international emissions targets set in 2015 under the Paris agreement
Particularly controversial are the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in the UK (currently under construction and controversial because of security concerns) and the Toulouse airport in France (a Chinese consortium purchased a majority stake but was relegated to a minority stake after French government intervention).
The state - run nuclear power plant operator was preparing for further cyber-attacks after its data was leaked on a blog and to a Twitter account under the profile «president of anti-nuclear reactor group.»
** JPMorgan Chase & Co's commodity trading arm is looking to sell more of the electricity deals it has with U.S. power plants and wind farms, a source familiar with the business said on Wednesday, at a time when Wall Street's involvement in physical commodity markets is under heightened scrutiny.
Under the brute force of the Category 4 storm, the aging and poorly maintained power plants and transmission lines sustained such significant damage that nearly a month later, power has only been restored to 26 percent of the island.
There Statius explains to Dante the generation of the embryo, and how the embryo passes through various stages before it can be considered a rational human: «This active power,» reads Robert M. Durling's translation, «having become a soul like that of a plant, but different in so far as it is still under way, while the other is already in port,»
One of its leading exponents, Sir Julian Huxley, defines a humanist as «someone who believes that Man is just as much a natural phenomenon as an animal or a plant; that his body, mind and soul were not supernaturally created, but are all products of evolution, and that he is not under the control or guidance of any supernatural being or beings, but has to rely on himself and his own powers
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